Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stripping down a car to the thousands of parts Ford buys from suppliers, Browning took a long, hard look at the pieces. That nickel-plated horn button emblem, couldn't that be replaced with a painted emblem? It could and would be. Savings: 8.9? per item; total saved...
...Carlson has kept hot on the trail of U.S. extremists, right & left. Using his pen name of Carlson* or any of several others suited to his purpose, he has applied for membership in the Communist Party and the Ku Klux Klan, listened to orations by the notorious George Van Horn Moseley and Gerald L. K. Smith, corresponded with a string of characters from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including Utah's Marilyn R. ("Jesus was NOT a Jew, but an Israelite") Allen, and Oregon's W. W. Bradley, secretary of the Federated Full Gospel Assemblies, an outfit which...
Coleman Hawkins, who brought the saxophone through almost all of its agonizing stages of development as a hot instrument from its first bicycle horn-like groping right down to the present era of squealing reeds and cyclone phrasing, heads the list. He will do battle with Illinois Jacquet, one of the younger fry, whose playing measured by the decibel and the foot pound is unexcelled...
...proved he can combine melody with modernism by his work on the Basic records: Royal Garden, Bugle, and Sugar Blues made in 1944. His rival among the more comprehensible instrumentalists will be Rex Stewart, Ellington's former solo cornetist who achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse who walks like a man, Dave Tough. This made over two beat artist has probably played in more widely divergent groups than any two other jazzmen, having run the gamut between Condon and Spivak...
...November, from the Isthmus to the Horn, the sun slanted more kindly on 96,000,000 humans. Since four out of five of them depended directly for their lives on what the sun and soil and water gave them from their labors to eat, this was for most their hopeful season. Clockwise from the ten republics came the reports...